Quote

Where would fashion be without literature?

Diana Vreeland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Would
Fashion
Literature
Without

More quotes by Diana Vreeland

Image
When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
Diana Vreeland
Image
One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
Diana Vreeland
Image
I adore artifice. I always have.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland
Image
You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
Diana Vreeland
Image
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
Diana Vreeland
Image
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
Diana Vreeland
Image
There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
Diana Vreeland
Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Pink is the navy blue of India.
Diana Vreeland
Image
You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
Diana Vreeland
Image
The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
Diana Vreeland